Studio Cafe at the Whitney
“Some recommendations: the Chilled Carrot Soup, the Butterhead Wedge Salad, the Avocado Toast, the Snap Pea Toast, the Arctic Char Toast, the Strawberry Pudding, and all of the House Made Sodas!!!”
“The "toasts" ie; open faced sandwiches were delicious.”
“The potato chips and dip was amazingly good too.”
Studio Cafe at the Whitney
Takes Reservations: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Outdoor Seating: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
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First of all, we came up here after realizing how pricey the food was at Untitled, the main floor restaurant at the Whitney. This place is great because you can sit outside and look at the amazing view!
We had an awesome server. She was funny, helpful, and nice. We asked her for recommendations and she suggested we all try different toasts. She also mentioned that it's a good deal to get a toast and a soup or salad for a few more dollars if you are extra hungry. We just ended up each getting our own toasts. I was very happy with my order of the whitefish one. The flavor of the fish was great and it had some nice tomatoes on it too. It was so good I didn't want to trade for a piece of anyone else's toast!
They also serve coffee and tea here so it's great if you just need a light bite while spending the day at the museum. It's very relaxing to sit outside and take a break from the art.
I guess overpriced is to be expected when it's in a museum, but I still expected more. When I ordered the toast I was expecting something like the beautiful pictures on the website, but it was nowhere near. While my mom's falafel toast was delicious, my speck and fig toast was really messy to eat and unbalanced in flavor. The bread was so toasted it became tough and the speck kept getting stuck in my teeth, and all in all I did not feel as glamorous as I would have wanted sitting in an art museum. In addition, it had way too much balsamic, far overpowering any hint of fig. The soups were better, though I was disappointed that the duck ramen only used duck for the broth.
This stop on the 8th floor of the Whiney Museum was a nice break during a day of cultural immersion! Enjoyed an open faced salmon sandwich and a few craft IPA! I was by myself so I sat at the bar and got quick service,
Delicious and relaxing!
Decently good food at museum cafe prices.
In the mood for a mid-afternoon snack & recharge (taking in all that art is surprisingly hard work!), I ordered the toast & soup combo and a macchiato. The toast was a good-sized portion (about the size of a slice from the midsection of a large, round loaf of bread), large enough to share if you like. Good, fresh-baked multigrain bread, topped with potato, dill and smoked arctic char. The dill flavor was enjoyable, but the smoked char was very mild, not as flavorful as good smoked salmon. The potato was, in retrospect, an odd carb-on-carb choice of topping, but with the dill in there it worked. The soup was smoked tomato and pecorino, simple but good, and a good pairing for that particular toast.
The macchiato was also good, rich and strong without being bitter. At $6, a bit pricey for a single macchiato, but I guess they know you're a captive audience.
Service was attentive, polite and friendly.
The toast & soup ($22), macchiato and a water ran to about $40 with tip, or about twice the price of the museum admission. Not bargain pricing, but pretty typical museum cafe pricing.
The duck ramen at this cafe is such a joke. There is no duck meat in it at all and the soup doesn't tasty anything related to duck either. There is only some slices of shiitake mushrooms and scallion. If you order the small bowl, the amount in it is around half bag of the 99 cents instant noodle you will find at the convenience store.
I aesthetically loved this place, the menu design (typography!!) as well as the cafe design were beautiful. If you sit outside you get a lovely view of the city but stay inside if you're looking for air conditioning.
Like most other museum cafes it's overpriced for the offerings but I thought it was really cool that they had about six or eight different toast choices. It reminded me of places in SF that specialize in awesome toast. I got the coconut passion fruit cake which was pretty good, the frosting was literally thick buttercream with less cream more butter… so I didn't enjoy the outside as much as I enjoyed the passion fruit jelly coating that was in between the layers of cake.
The servers were kind of slow in delivering the drinks, our food came out before we even got to try the drinks which was strange…but forgivable haha
Came here to grab a quick bite before dinner at the Whitney Museum. It was not crowded on a weekday. Got the charcuterie plate ($17) and their handmade root beer ($6). The charcuterie plate was very good and their rootbeer tasted like nothing I ever drank before. Most "interesting" rootbeer I've tried…it was good but had a unique taste. Definitely try it you're a rootbeer lover. Service was a little slow, even though there were many workers and not many seated tables.
Basically you should skip Untitled and eat here if you're at the Whitney. This cafe is located on the top floor of the museum and truly the rooftop views cannot be beat. On one side you see the Hudson and lower Manhattan/WTC; from another angle you can see other rooftops stretching north through midtown. We were here on a beautiful June evening and the people-watching (on other rooftops) was incredible! The service was also top-notch; we only ordered one drink each and a snack and stayed for about an hour and they definitely didn't rush us out. This is pricey (as expected) but I had a killer glass of rosé and we enjoyed an addictive bowl of homemade potato chips with beer cheese. We were on our way to dinner or would have ordered more but it looked like there were some great options. Can't wait to come back!